This is a powerful short story. There are only about 30 pages in the English language and another 30 in Thai.
Preface
Beneath the emerald canopies of the Southeast Asian hills, where bamboo shadows drift with the wind
and rivers carry the songs of many generations, lies a world few outsiders have truly seen.
The Boy of the Bamboo Shadows grew out of a fascination with that world - the world of the Karen people, whose history, culture and systems of belief intertwine nature, spirit, and survival in ways both fragile and enduring.
This story follows one boy's journey through that landscape, but it also seeks to carry the reader deeper: into a culture that has learned to walk lightly between forest and field, village and mountain. the visible and the unseen. The adventure is imagined yet grounded in traditions and struggles that remain vividly real, shaped by centuries of resilience and quiet faith
Available from Kim White email: belizeman2002@yahoo.com Wholesale price is ฿200 (minimum order 15 copies). Suggested retail price is ฿300.
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